Join us now as the remaining members of the Kasama tribe gather around the campfire and lie to each other. Vytas says that was a great move, voting his brother, Aras, out. And Tyson says that he felt bad because he loved the guy.

Tina says she can't keep her mouth shut. She points out Tyson and Monica won the battle but they didn't win the war because they now have five votes on the jury that won't go for them because they flipped on their alliance.

Considering there were three alliances, that we counted, with people belonging to multiple groups, that didn't seem like much of a flip. Tyson defends himself saying he was never part of an alliance because Tina and Aras had pushed him out. Then Tina says some people weren't in any alliance, which starts everyone else saying “I was.” Love it.

The next morning, Tina tells Katie, her daughter, that things aren't looking good for them and for Katie to play her own game without worrying about including mom in whatever deal she can work.

All too soon, it's time for the Immunity Challenge.

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE

Uh oh, it's a “Survivor” classic — eating yucky food. The first five up have to eat meal worms, a shot glass full of wigglers. First three to get it down move on to the next round. Tyson, Monica and Vytas make it through. The next five face the same challenge, and it is Hayden, Gervase and Caleb who emerge triumphantly. We'll spare you the details of how they did it.

Second round is 3 ounces of pig intestines. Monica and Gervase go to the finals.

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Final round, two live grubs. This is the “food” that Gervase couldn't get through when he competed 13 years ago. It's brutal, but Monica wins immunity. We think the worst part about this challenge is that a lot of people ate a lot of disgusting things for, in the end, no point.

But moving on, Monica is thrilled to have won immunity. It's been a dream of hers, she tells Gervase as she apologies. We assume winning immunity was the dream, not eating grubs.

And the plotting starts. Tyson, Monica, Gervase, Laura, Ciera, Caleb and Hayden are splitting the votes, four for Vytas and three for Katie, just in case Vytas has the hidden idol. Tyson, who has the idol, doesn't like all the splitting of votes and wonders if he should tell them that he has the idol. Nah. Monica, who has the immunity necklace and is the only person who knows for sure she's not going, is worried that everyone is “scrambling” and she thinks that maybe the reason is that the original plan was to vote her off. Don't give them any ideas.

Vytas makes a case to Tyson that they should vote off Katie instead, promising him a jury vote, and Tyson sees some value in that. And we're headed to tribal council.

TRIBAL COUNCIL

It's a touchy one. Tina talks about Monica and Tyson flipping on the alliance. Vytas confesses he was angry they had voted off his brother and wanted revenge, hypothetically. He complains about Monica being a paranoid doormat and will do whatever anyone tells her. Wow, Monica says. She then launches a few good jabs at Vytas for turning on her husband and voting him off. Vytas, however, manages to punch back and talks about how important it is for the men to keep the numbers on the women, because they could form an all woman's alliance and start picking off the men. Man, he's good.

Not as good as he thinks, though. He gets the majority votes and joins his little brother on Redemption Island.

The rest of the tribe returns home and we learn that Monica voted for Vytas instead of Katie because he had been so aggressive toward her at tribal. Oops, Gervase is not happy that Monica can't follow the rules. Her going on her own might have caused one of them to have been voted out, in an alternate universe.

At Redemption Island, the brothers are fighting. Vytas blames Aras for getting them both booted. There were signs, Vytas told him, that Aras missed. Now they're out of the game. They're not out of the game, Aras counters. They're just waiting to rejoin. At least one of them, maybe. Aras says he'll be just as happy for Vytas. if he gets back in, as he would for himself. Vytas says he wouldn't be should the tables be reversed.

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE

It's time for the second immunity challenge this episode. The test is to balance coins on the handle of a sword, which is set, point down, on a shield. Jeff Probst gives them instructions on what size coins to place next. If a coin falls, you're out. Monica is out first, followed by Ciera. Then it's Tina, Gervase, Laura and Caleb.

The final three are Hayden, Katie and Tyson. Then in a matter of seconds, Tyson and Hayden drop their coins, giving immunity to Katie, who really needed it to last a day longer. The same can't be said of her mom, Tina, who is the likely target tonight unless something crazy happens.

Speaking of crazy, Katie is feeling pretty happy. Tina says she's going to spend the five hours she has left to search for the hidden immunity idol. Tyson, Caleb and Hayden decide to follow her to see what she's up to, but they lose her in the jungle. Tyson and Caleb eventually find her and hilarity ensues. Not really. Tina doesn't want to search while they are there because that would tell them she doesn't have it, but they aren't going to leave. It's a standoff that ensues.

The problem is, if she finds it, which she won't, they need to split the votes to stay in control of who goes, but who do they direct part of the votes to? Uh oh, Monica seems a popular choice. In fact, maybe they won't split them at all, Hayden says, and everyone can just vote her out because she can't follow the rules.

TRIBAL COUNCIL

Tina tells Probst about the hunt and chase for the hidden idol, but says she was able to get away from her baby sitters twice. Everyone, but Tyson, thinks there is a chance she may have found it. Tina announces that Monica is on the bottom of alliance. She talks too much and is only told who to vote for at the last minute because they can't trust her keep her mouth shut.

Monica admits that she's a little nervous about what Tina says, but she still seems pretty confident. Hayden says splitting the vote might be a good to take out the bottom one. Monica says that's a dumb idea because she's very trustworthy. Tyson is uncharacteristically silent.

The votes are cast, and Tina gives a pretty good fake-out that she's got the idol, but of course she doesn't. And she that's too bad, because the majority of votes goes to her and she's off to Redemption Island pretty cheerfully.

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